Episode · My First Million · 2022-11-24
Books mentioned on The 5 Levels Of Building Wealth | How To Climb The Ladder (#389)
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“imagine okay you read like it for me I read Harry Potter Harry Potter's great I'm done with the books but I want more Harry Potter I love that world I love the characters all that stuff so then there's people who are super fans who will just go write their own as if they're JK Rowling website”
Passing Twilight
“two of the biggest books in the last like 25 years started as fan fiction so uh Twilight started as fan fiction and then the whole Vampire series and then 50 Shades of Gray started as a fan fiction of Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray became that”
Passing A Room of One's Own
“she writes a blog post that says we need an archive of of One's Own and that was playing off this thing a room of one Zone by Virginia Woolf”
Passing The Lord of the Rings
“for example the original Lord of the Rings is like the trilogy plus the next two books was like a total of 750 000 words 750k a fan has written uh like a fan fiction version of Lord of the Rings like the extension and it's over five million words”
“I think that's that's what happens when you read How to Win Friends and Influence People while you're uh you know you're at the hospital”
“I think that's what happens when you read How to Win Friends and Influence People while you're uh you know you're at the hospital”